Interfaces, Quantum Wells, and Superlattices

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Why Interfaces, Quantum Wells and Superlattices? Some Comments

   • Phillip J. Stiles

   Pages 1-10

3. Molecular Beam Epitaxy

   • C. T. Foxon

   Pages 11-41

4. Envelope Function Approach to Electronic States in Heterostructures

   • Massimo Altarelli

   Pages 43-66

5. The Determination of Subband Energies

   • F. Koch

   Pages 67-93

6. Infrared Excitations in Electronic Systems with Reduced Dimensionality

   • Jörg P. Kotthaus

   Pages 95-126

7. Electronic Structure of Laterally Restricted Systems

   • Frank Stern

   Pages 127-142

8. Electrons and Holes in Quantum Boxes

   • Garnett W. Bryant

   Pages 143-152

9. Electronic Excitations of Multi-Quantum-Well Structures

   • Godfrey Gumbs

   Pages 153-162

10. Magnetoplasma Modes of the Two Dimensional Electron Gas

    • C. Kallin

    Pages 163-173

11. Many Body Effects on the Cyclotron Resonance in Electron Inversion Layers

    • C. Kallin

    Pages 175-187

12. Stark Shifts and Excitonic Effects in Semiconductor Quantum Wells and Superlattices

    • G. Bastard

    Pages 189-209

13. Ultrafast Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

    • Stefan Schmitt-Rink

    Pages 211-226

14. Applications of Resonant Tunneling in Semiconductor Heterostructures

    • E. E. Mendez

    Pages 227-242

15. Polaron Effects and Optic Phonon Scattering in Heterostructures

    • R. J. Nicholas, M. A. Hopkins, M. A. Brummell, D. R. Leadley

    Pages 243-269

16. Density of States and Electron-Phonon Coupling in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems at High Magnetic Fields

    • J. P. Eisenstein

    Pages 271-297

17. The Quantum Hall Effect: From Integral to Fractional, from Two Dimensional to Three Dimensional

    • H. L. Stormer

    Pages 299-318

18. Photons, Rotons and Fractionally-Charged Vortices in the Quantum Hall Effect

    • S. M. Girvin

    Pages 319-331

19. Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order in the Quantum Hall Effect

    • S. M. Girvin

    Pages 333-346

20. Fibonacci Superlattices

    • A. H. MacDonald

    Pages 347-378

The NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Interfaces, Quantum Wells and Superlattices" was held from August 16th to 29th, 1987, in Banff, Alberta, Canada. This volume contains most of the lectures that were given at the Institute. A few of the lectures had already been presented at an earlier meeting and appear instead in the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Physics and Applications of Quantum Wells and Super lattices" held in Erice from April 21st to May 1st earlier in the year and published by Plenum Press. The study of semiconductor interfaces, quantum wells and super­ lattices has come to represent a substantial proportion of all work in condensed matter physics. In a sense the growth of interest in this area, which began to accelerate about 10 years ago and seems to be continuing, has been driven by technological developments. While the older generation of semiconductor devices was based on adjacent semiconductors with different properties (e. g. different doping levels) separated by interfaces, modern semiconductor devices tend to be based more and more on properties of the interfaces themselves. This has led, as an example, to the field of band-structure engineering. Improved understanding of the fundamental physics of these systems has aided technological developments and, in turn, technological developments have made available systems which exhibit novel and fascinating phYSical properties, such as the integer and fractional quantum Hall effects.

• Doping
• Exciton
• Hall effect
• Semiconductor
• magnetic field
• physics

• Division of Physics, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

  C. Richard Leavens, Roger Taylor

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